Vic : tuesday market, official tourist walk, and a stop in Figaro on the way back

It takes 1h20' to get to Vic , and the return ticket costs 10,40 euros from Plaza Catalunya. The second part of the train route is really nice, goes between green hills , next to small rivers and wild flower fields, although the first half in the Valles area was not to friendly, it is quite industrial and overpacked with newly build blocks. Every tuesday and sturdy there is a market on Vic's Plaza Mayor. The square is really pretty, with a medieval atmosphere , especially that the square itself is not covered with tiles or stones or concrete, instead it is covered with gravel.The market is just like the typical general weekly markets around Barcelona: lot of chinese stuff, some second hand clothes for 1 euro each, cheap cosmetics, big variety of potted plants, good looking and delicious vegetables. Luckily the tourist information office was open so i could get a map of the city, and also many useful information and guides about walking paths around the city, one of those goes to the Monastery of Sant Pere de Casserres , and it looks really pretty on the photos, so i would really like to walk there soon, it is just a 19km walk back and forth.There is a nice little "touristic route" in Vic, which drives you around the old town , carefully , so you stay only on the very pretty old streets and got to see all the classical sights the town can offer. The river with the old bridge is pretty although the other side of the river and all the other bridges are newly build uninteresting grey things. There is a real roman church on the way as well which i found quite impressive, there was a local flower-painter's exhibition in the church, so from the inside it didn't look like a roman church at all. The whole walk can be done in an hour, and it drives you back to the Plaza Mayor, from there the train station is just 5 minutes walk.













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